DIZZY

a. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct. Alas! his brain was dizzy. Drayton.

2.
a.

Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo. To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder. Macaulay.

3.
a.

Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless. "The dizzy multitude." Milton.

4.
v.

To make dizzy or giddy; to give the vertigo to; to confuse. If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding. Sir W. Scott.

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